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receive such truths as in another life may be bended to truths of faith.

But lie who is not principled in charity, that is, who does not live in good, can in nowise receive any truth. He may indeed know what is true, but it is not implanted in his life; thus he may have it indeed in his mouth, but not in his heart; for truth cannot be conjoined with evil.

Therefore they who know truths which are called articles of belief, and do not live in charity or in good, although they are in the church as being born there, still they are not of the church, since they have nothing of the church in them; that is, they have nothing of good to which truth may be conjoined. (A. C. 3267.)

They who have not confirmed themselves against the goods and truths of faith, as is the case with those who are out of the church and yet have lived in a certain kind of faith and charity according to their religious [principles], have not been able to close the internal man in themselves by things negative of truth, and by things confirmative of falsities against the truth of faith from the Word. Therefore their internal is opened above, which is into heaven and to the Lord, if not in the world still in the other life; and then all terrestrial and worldly things which they have derived to themselves from life in the world, are at the same time elevated so as together to look upwards; by which things they are in a state to receive the truths of faith and the